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Vega shoots into space

Today the European Space Agency’s Vega launcher shot like a bolt into space. Vega is a small mission launcher made up of three solid rocket stages and a final liquid stage. It’s a modern machine: the final stage can be turned on and off several times to place satellites into precise orbits, and it can then de-orbit itself, cutting down the amount of junk cluttering space. 

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